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Note these states continually refuse to take the most basic steps to clean their voter rolls -- until forced by lawsuit or federal action.
Why is that?
The North Carolina State Board of Elections identified approximately 34,000 dead people on the state's voter rolls following a comprehensive data comparison with a federal database.
Earlier this month, the NCSBE submitted over 7.3 million voter records to the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database as part of an initiative to strengthen the accuracy and integrity of the state's voter registration list. The NCSBE clarified that the identification of deceased individuals on the state's voter rolls does not necessarily indicate illegal votes were cast.
"While we expected to find some cases, this is higher than we anticipated," Sam Hayes, the executive director of the State Board of Elections, said in a press release.
The discovery came amid the agency's ongoing effort to verify the citizenship status of voters, which the NCSBE voted along party lines earlier this month to do after facing lawsuits from the Trump administration for allegedly failing to maintain an accurate voter list.
The NCSBE said it will work with county boards of elections to remove the names from the voter rolls.
Federal law requires states to remove from their voter rolls people who are ineligible for reasons such as being deceased and North Carolina already has a process of biennial list maintenance to remove ineligible voters from its roles, according to Dr. Andy Jackson, director of the Civitas Center for Public Integrity at the John Locke Foundation, who indicated that the state removed 500,000 ineligible voters through this program in 2025.
However, as Jackson points out for deceased voters, it can take eight to 10 years for their names to be removed.
Government working at typical levels of government efficiency.
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The Trump administration has also launched a nationwide push to obtain full statewide voter-registration lists and list-maintenance records, suing those states failing to comply. The Justice Department has sued at least 30 states and the District of Columbia to try to force the release of the data, according to the Associated Press.
President Donald Trump standing in the Oval Office at the White House
The Republican National Committee's official election integrity account on X said that the findings in North Carolina "is EXACTLY" why the Trump administration is forcing states to clean up their voter rolls.
"Turns out checking state voter rolls against federal records actually helps keep them more accurate. Who knew?" quipped Frank LaRose, Ohio secretary of state and candidate for Ohio auditor of state.
I can't help noticing that the thing the media assures me can never happen -- at least when a Democrat wins -- seems to be deliberately engineered to happen.
THE MORNING RANT: Delta Airlines Is Backpedaling from Obedience to the Climate Religion’s Commandments
—Buck Throckmorton
The good news is that Delta Airlines is acknowledging that its previous green energy and net-zero goals cannot be achieved by the deadlines it had committed to.
The bad news is that Delta Airlines is still playing footsie at all with the green energy hustlers, rather than stating the simple truth that the “net zero” objectives cannot be met and will not be met. Most importantly, it’s frustrating that airline executives do not have the backbone to defend their businesses and assertively reject the premise that an airline should aspire to be carbon-free. Airlines fly on petroleum-based jet fuel. There is no shame in that.
But in Delta’s defense, executives at United and American are even bigger cowards, letting Delta take the first public steps toward backing away from the major airlines’ unattainable climate pledges.
Delta Air Lines Inc. quietly scrubbed a pair of key environmental targets from its sustainability web page late last week. The Atlanta-based carrier deleted its pledge to use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for 10% of its jet fuel by 2030. It also rephrased its quest to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 as an “aspiration,” rather than a “goal.”
Delta had promised to be using 10% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by 2030. SAF is made from used cooking oil and other non-petroleum sources. Delta’s SAF use has maxed out at 0.5%, or just 1/20th of what it had promised. There just aren’t enough “sustainable” sources of raw materials to make the SAF. Maybe people need to start eating more french fries and chicken fried steaks.
A Delta spokesman is quoted as saying ”While we have successfully increased use of SAF every year, we recognize that the technology has not advanced as rapidly as the industry requires.” In other words, promises were made based on technology that did not even exist at the time. The clean energy pledges were made with the hope that technologies would “advance rapidly.”
The airlines might as well have been making promises based on energy produced by perpetual motion machines. It would be no less speculative. It is a tremendous disgrace to corporate respectability that executives of publicly-traded companies – people making tens of millions of dollars per year – are making childish promises that they cannot fulfill. And I’m not sure which is worse, the public dishonesty of those executives who know they’re lying about their goals, or the maleducated executives who believe the green energy hype. Perhaps their egos allow them to believe that if they command it, it will happen.
The goal of being “net zero” in 24 years is just as dishonestly ludicrous. Changing this from a “goal” to an “aspiration” is just another weaselly way of stating that pledges are being made that won’t ever be fulfilled, but the executives aren’t honest enough to admit it.
It’s way past time for corporations to stop serving as mouthpieces for the left’s political agenda. Until then, corporations in service to the left don’t deserve our principled defense when the communist snakes those corporations have been coddling choose to bite them.
Normally when I’m ranting about corporations, usually for their woke political activism, I know the subject I am talking about.
Today, just for fun, I want to comment on something I know very little about – advertising. There is so much about it that puzzles me, such as why auto manufacturers have spent a fortune advertising EVs which consumers won’t buy, rather than targeting their advertising toward vehicles that customers would purchase. Or why Gillette had an advertising campaign in which it accused its (soon-to-be-former) customers of being sexual predators. Advertising is weird.
Anyhow, I saw these signs while grabbing some coffee at a Dunkin’ Doughnuts at an airport recently, and I just don’t get it.
One sign says: “SLOW AND STEADY – We craft our donuts slow and steady, hand-finishing them into perfection.”
Is this a re-purposed barbecue advertising campaign? Who equates “slow and steady” as being a way to sell a flash-fried pastry?
The other sign says: ”TRIED AND TRUE – The donuts in our case today are still inspired by our original recipe dating back to 1950.”
“…inspired by”?? The styling of a Chrysler 300 is inspired by Rolls Royce. I saw a watch at Wal-Mart that was inspired by Rolex. What a puzzling admission that Dunkin has altered its recipe. When doughnuts were made fresh in-store, I recall them being much better than the doughnuts now made at a central commissary and shipped in.
To Dunkin’s credit, their coffee is still 100% arabica, and there are still 16 ounces in a pound of Dunkin coffee. And unlike Starbucks, Dunkin has never confronted me about racial injustice when I order a cup of coffee.
I suppose it’s actually a successful ad campaign, since Dunkin hasn’t run me off as an occasional customer. That is more than I can say about certain ad campaigns from Gillette, Anheuser-Busch, Cracker Barrel, and other woke companies who will never receive another dime from me.
Liberty Leading the Puppies
After Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
I will leave the cultural impact of AI for another discussion, but the first attempt to create a "Dogs On Velvet" image was met with resistance from Grok, because the depictions of violence in Delacroix's famous painting were apparently off limits to AI's gentle sensibilities. I had to move to ChatGPT for this version.
Good morning kids. Mayday Mayday Mayday!!! Yay, it's May. Before diving into the current events, I want to take a moment to reflect and remember the more than 100 million lives snuffed out by Communism and all its manifestations in barely a century. And considering that this malignancy still controls quite a few nations on this planet, the number of victims will continue to grow though mercifully at a much slower rate. This is due in large part to the leadership, bravery and moral rectitude of Ronald Reagan and Pope John-Paul II, both of whom politically and spiritually defied the odds and a corrupt culture that despised them for defying them and wanting to change the global order and put civilization back on track and in so doing liberated millions from the evil Soviet bloc by bringing it crashing down. Both survived assassination attempts for their troubles. The world changed for the better because of them and here we are nearly 50 years later, not necessarily out of the woods as is evidenced by retrograde forces determined to drag America and what remains of western civilization back to the dark ages, to a collectivist/technocratic tyrannical hell-on-earth, in alliance with global Islam, but at least we are in a much better position to if not prevent then at least forestall that fate.
I'll go out on a limb and state that both Reagan and John Paul II paved the way for the ascendancy of Donald Trump. No wonder he too has dodged and in one instance taken a would-be assassin's bullet. As much of the world has either retreated or conspired with both the Chi-Coms and Islam, President Trump has taken on both much to the contempt and bitter hatred of their allies and defenders, especially here at home.
The Red Chinese may yet suffer the same fate as their progenitors in the former Soviet Union. As for Islam, the prospects of it either reforming itself from within or somehow burning itself out considering the oceans of blood it has spilled for over 1500 years in its overt goal of global conquest are dim to say the least. While no one can predict the future, for sure Donald Trump may very well be one of the most positively transformational figures in American if not world history. Of course this presupposes a permanent shift back to a pro-American and western political/cultural society once his tenure ends.
Rep. Laura Gillen (D-NY), for instance, wrote following the attack, “Political violence has no place in this country and we must condemn last night’s actions targeting officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. . . However, in January 2024, she falsely asserted that Republicans posed a threat to our democracy itself. New York Democrats Try to Save Face Condemning Political Violence Despite History of Inciting It
“The ultimate effects will be eminently desirable...Party is precisely the mechanism by which political conflict is meant to be realized.” Toward Race-Blind Democracy
The lawsuit highlights ongoing concerns over birth tourism and the national security risks it presents, as well as the ease of exploiting U.S. immigration laws under the status quo. President Donald J. Trump has attempted to curtail birthright citizenship—the internationally unusual doctrine that almost anyone born on U.S. soil has an automatic right to U.S. citizenship, even if their parents are in the country illegally—by executive order, with the Supreme Court currently deliberating on the lawfulness of his reforms. Paxton Takes Legal Action Against ‘Birth Tourism’ Center for Chinese Nationals.
You can’t solve a systemic problem like this with one case, one arrest, or one push. Given the magnitude of the problem in Minnesota, to resolve it will likely take federal law enforcement years — at least another Republican administration after President Donald Trump’s current term has passed. So it was welcome news when we learned that the FBI has raided roughly 20 Minnesota businesses that are suspected of fraud, including that now famous misspelled “childcare” operation called “Quality Learing Center.” Republicans Actually Pounce on Tim Walz’s Mind-Blowing Pivot on Rampant Fraud
The House ended a 76-day standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), reopening most of the agency’s operations after weeks of gridlock. House Funds DHS, Ending 75-Day Standoff
“This is a long-awaited win for both borrowers and small businesses. Annual savings from replacing the Biden-Harris rule will exceed an estimated $166 million annually,” Acting CFPB Director Russ Vought said in a statement to Breitbart News. “These reforms not only make borrowing more affordable for America’s small businesses, including our farmers, but minimize burdens on those needing quick access to credit without requiring them to answer unnecessary and invasive DEI questions introduced by the Biden-Harris-Chopra Junta.” Exclusive — Trump Admin Finalizes Rule Scrapping ‘Invasive’ DEI Requirements for Small Business Lending
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The reality is also that Americans are getting killed, murdered, and raped because of the immigration problem created by the last administration. Democrats and the dying news media are just fine with that, so long as it helps them win elections. That doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be. NY Times Seriously Says If Affirmative Action Is Illegal, So Is Enforcing Immigration Law
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The newly founded lobby association European Resilience Alliance (ERA) is demanding state aid to kick-start the hydrogen economy. Alliance of the Cashiers
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Harvard’s gatekeepers tout resumes but hide convictions, revealing an elite more committed to ideological conformity than to intellectual honesty. Can Harvard Be Reformed?
As Virginia falls under one-party Democrat rule and pushes an extreme gerrymander, the Old Dominion’s constitutional order faces its sharpest test in a generation. Virginia Succumbs to Tyrants
Polling suggests they’re not buying the Dem line on Iran, and one lone voice at a radical outfit is urging its followers to cool their jets as they lose credibility. Is the American public getting wise to Democrat lies?
“Several sources have informed us of an incursion by Colombian guerrillas across the northern border, instigated by the Petro administration,” Noboa wrote on social media. “We will protect our border and our people. President Petro, focus on improving the lives of your people instead of trying to export problems to neighboring countries.” Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa Accuses Colombia’s Gustavo Petro of ‘Driving’ Guerrilla Incursion
For half a century the deal has been that Americans pay for the discoveries and Europeans enjoy them at cut rates. Under Trump, that arrangement is coming to its end. Britain has accepted the new terms. Germany is testing whether the Administration means it. Berlin Doubles Down on Making Americans Pay.
Civilizations are not interchangeable; they are developmental, and importing populations without the institutional mindset of the host society guarantees friction, not integration. The Truth about Immigration from the Global South
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Morens’s indictment cracks the door open, but the network behind the Wuhan lab leak cover-up still holds power at NIH—and demands a full reckoning. Fauci’s Lab Leak Henchmen Are Finally Facing Accountability (meh, It's Fauci that must swing - jjs)
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The vote highlights growing tensions within the Republican Party over corporate accountability and public health policy, as well as the increasing influence of the MAHA movement. Critics claim the decision could lead to higher consumer costs, while supporters see it as a necessary step to address health risks and corporate responsibility. MAHA Republicans Strip Protections for Pesticide Makers Out of Farm Bill.
At present, Gray predicts the impact will occur at 2:44 am (Eastern) on August 5, 2026. The image above is his present estimate of where it will
hit, as seen from Earth. Falcon 9 upper stage to hit the Moon in August
At the moment the schedule appears to be experiencing delays, caused mostly by the PSLV launch failures. It appears ISRO wants this issue resolved before it launches that first unmanned Gaganyaan test flight. The present state of India’s space program
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Democrat candidate Sarah Trone Garriott, a pastor who has repeatedly expressed support for transgender-related issues, including a post in 2020 claiming that being transgender increases the likelihood of experiencing food insecurity, is running against incumbent Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA), who is set to host Vice President JD Vance in Iowa next week. Iowa Democrat Pastor Running for Congress: Trans Individuals ‘May Not Feel Safe’ Using Food Pantries She meant to say Food PANTIES - jjs)
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Welcome to the Thursday ONT for this week. Closing out April. One third of the year is over. Does that mean anything? Probably not. Anyway - open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Sporting red, white, and a deep blue, Southwest Airlines has unveiled a plane with a new paint job in honor of America's 250th anniversary.
"Independence One" was introduced on Monday at Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport, displaying a massive "1776" across the front cabin windows and "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" toward the back.
"It's a symbol of what it means to give America the freedom to fly," said Bob Jordan, the airline's CEO, to a crowd of attendees. "As Southwest celebrates our 55th year, and (as) our nation celebrates 250, we wanted to mark this moment in a way that reflects who we are, where we've been and where we are headed."
Some good photos here from the BWI X account
Independence One!@SouthwestAir yesterday unveiled a new aircraft livery celebrating @America250 here at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
The special design joins two other American flag-themed planes, Freedom One and Liberty One (also new). pic.twitter.com/A8xZTQEdML
A Wisconsin road has added a decimal point to its speed limit — in the hope that the unusual traffic sign will give drivers’ second thoughts about putting the pedal to the metal.
The Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste facility in Appleton, 107 miles north of Milwaukee, announced Monday that the speed limit inside the facility would now be 17.3 mph.
“You may notice something a little different on your next visit,” the facility wrote in a Facebook post. “Our posted speed limit is now 17.3.”
The facility, which provides recycling and landfill disposal services, said it decided on a posted speed limit of 17.3 mph because it makes drivers “pause.”
“It makes you look twice. And most importantly, it breaks that ‘autopilot’ feeling we can all fall into when driving familiar routes,” the facility added.
I don't know about you, but there is just no way I could keep my speed below 18.
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What's another way to say a moron is full of shit?
Josh Vintner-Jackson first felt some discomfort in his lower left hip in March 2020.
At the time, Vintner-Jackson, who is from the UK, was 29 and worked at a startup in Austin. He balanced his time between work, hanging out with friends, and his active hobbies. He loved running marathons, including one five-day ultramarathon through the desert in Jordan.
Over the next four months, he would occasionally feel a pang of discomfort in the area. By the end of May, he had started to become severely constipated, despite eating what he considered a healthy diet.
After not pooping for eight days, he went to urgent care in June 2020, where an X-ray revealed a buildup in his colon.
Check out the whole thing. And let this serve as a reminder to get your colonoscopy if you are due!
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This should have been included in Tuesday's ONT, but someone dropped the ball. The Tuesday ONT host must be asshoe.
A group of Tibetan herders play a game of billiards as a flock of goats and horses graze on the pasture above them near Xiangpi mountain, China, 1999. Photo by Natalie Behring.
There is a cafe in Cumbria, England where a large indoor sandpit allows customers to operate remote-controlled construction trucks and excavators from their seats.pic.twitter.com/IyMoDJNINn
Mother is very important for every living creature.
A baby white rhinoceros woke up from anesthesia and chased the conservation veterinarians away, believing they were hurting its mother. ❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/wUuA3ctxc9
The mother squirrel gently takes the hand of the woman who feeds her every day in the garden and leads her to her nest to introduce her to her babies. This is aweeeee! 🤗🤗 pic.twitter.com/pBW2f6xT07
The baby elephant abandoned by its herd had fallen into depression and lost its will to live… until it met a dog named Duma and they became friends. ❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/qepWLIRECD
It's necessary to suspend the primaries if you're redrawing the maps because... well, people don't even know what districts will exist to run in.
Louisiana governor suspends House primaries until July after Supreme Court redistricting ruling
Landry said the rescheduling will only impact the House races in the state and subsequent runoff elections, meaning the Senate and state Supreme Court races will go as planned on May 16.
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"The best way to end race-based discrimination is to stop making decisions based on race," Landry said in a statement. "Here in Louisiana, we're proud to lead the nation on this charge. Allowing elections to proceed under an unconstitutional map would undermine the integrity of our system and violate the rights of our voters. This executive order ensures we uphold the rule of law while giving the Legislature the time it needs to pass a fair and lawful congressional map."
The House races will now be suspended until July 15 or "until such time as determined" by the Louisiana state Legislature. It was not immediately clear when the runoffs from the primary would take place.
Will other GOP governors take the same initiative?
In some political quick hits:
The House passed a measure to fund most of DHS. This represents a bit of a tactical defeat, as the House demanded full funding for all of DHS, but CPB and ICE are already funded through the Big Beautiful Bill, and it's Democrat Assassination Season again so we really need a fully functioning DHS.
Congress on Thursday passed legislation to fund Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies that don't deal with immigration, ending a 76-day shutdown.
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The bill did not include funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the Border Patrol. Republicans are planning a reconciliation package to separately approve funding for those agencies for the rest of Trump's term.
Using reconciliation would allow the Senate to bypass its 60-vote filibuster threshold and pass the funding without Democratic support.
The One Big, Beautiful Bill included funding for ICE and CBP, meaning the shutdown generally did not affect those agencies. Democrats had sought to extract policy concessions from the administration, but ultimately did not secure their demands.
Asked if she thinks America will elect a gay president, Alexandria Donkey-Chompers says America's already had one.
And of course we all thought: Gay Barack Obama.
TMZ DC is making waves on Capitol Hill ... after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told one of our producers it's entirely possible America's already had a gay president, Republicans seem to be offering up their best guess ... Barack Obama!!!
The Republican National Committee's official X account just reposted our clip with AOC and added a photo of Obama on top ... seemingly suggesting the GOP believes Obama was our first gay Prez.
He is. And there's proof. Despite the left claiming everyone is gay, they don't make that claim about Obama, because in Obama's case it happens to be true and it would be "racist" to say anything about Obama he doesn't say himself.
Straight men do not dream of fucking dudes, and don't say they do. Gay guys say this when they're attempting a Modified Limited Hang-Out that partly reveals and partly conceals the truth.
Former President Barack Obama wrote of his own "androgynous" mind and "mak[ing] love to men daily, but in the imagination," according to the redacted portion of a now-notorious 1982 letter, obtained by The Post.
The more than 40-year-old letter to an ex-girlfriend recently resurfaced after Obama biographer David Garrow gave a long and winding interview on the one-time commander-in-chief.
"In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life. You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination," Obama, then 21, wrote to Alex McNear in November 1982.
"My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men. But, in returning to the body, I see that I have been made a man, and physically in life, I choose to accept that contingency," he added.
Not even fucking garrett talks like this.
McNear, who dated Obama during his year at Occidental College in Los Angeles, later redacted the salacious paragraphs, which Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garrow hunted down and included in his tome "Rising Star."
The letter is currently owned by Emory University, which doesn't permit it to be photographed or removed. Instead, Garrow's friend Harvey Klehr transcribed the paragraphs by hand and sent them to the author.
Nancy Pelosi endorshhhes Jack Shossshburg.
I'd like to say she's drunk -- she often is, publicly, during working hours -- but it's also possible she's just old. She has the same problem with consonant clusters, any two or three consonants mixed together or spoken in succession, as Joe Biden did.
Hapless Woke Karen Drops Out of Maine Senate Race, Clearing Field for National Socialist (and Avowed Communist) Graham "Totenkopf" Platner
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Janet Mills is the currently serving governor of Maine.
The ugly broke-down swamphag has been fighting to keep six foot boys beating the shit out of five-two girls in high school and college sports.
Below, she appeared at the Farmington Moose Lottery -- no, unfortunately, they were not giving mooses free cars or even potluck prizes, but just giving humans licenses to hunt mooses.
She was heckled. I hear a lot of "moooo" heckles, which I think might come from the mooses present at the event. I think some mooses were present because if they get a moose hunting license, it's a license to kill your moosewife's lover, isn't it?
Trump blasted Mills for seeking to import 75,000 illegals into the state, and did so by repeatedly referring to Mills as "he" and "him."
Though she's -- he's? -- the serving governor, she is vying for the nomination as Democrat senate candidate. Had she won, she would face RINO Susan Collins in the general.
But she's not winning. In fact, she's unable to even raise money for her campaign, despite being, as I said, the sitting governor of the state.
That tells me two things: 1, Maine Democrats really don't like this Female Igor, and 2, Maine Democrats really, really love the Nazi with a literal SS Death's Head (Totenkopf) tattoo on his chest.
Mills posted her rather lengthy announcement of dropping out of the race on X on April 30. "When I decided to run for the United States Senate last year, it was because I believed Maine people were getting a bad deal from Washington and because the President of the United States was threatening our democracy and pushing our nation to the brink of disaster. I continue to believe that today," she wrote in the usual Democrat style of encouraging extreme hatred and violence against her opponents. She mentioned "climate change," abortion, and "free community college" among her focuses.
Despite her hatred for Donald Trump, however, she is dropping out: "While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else -- the fight -- to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources. That is why today I have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the United States Senate."
She trailed the Nazi in the supposedly "anti-Nazi" party by... twenty-two points.
And now the Nazi will easily goose-step his way to the nomination of the allegedly "anti-Nazi" party:
She trails primary rival Grant Platner by 22 points, according to the most recent RealClearPolitics.com polls average.
Mills' campaign rested on a platform of opposing President Donald Trump, but it struggled to resonate with Democrats in the state, The Washington Post reported.
Mills had the support of Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer. Platner, is an oyster farmer and first-time candidate. He will now likely face incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins in the General Election.
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Democrat with a Nazi-linked tattoo Graham Platner will likely be the DEM US SENATE NOMINEE out of Maine after Gov. Janet Mills drops out of the primary
Janet Mills was CHUCK SCHUMER-ENDORSED — she lost.
Platner has Bernie and Elizabeth Warren behind him.
Oh, this is beyond perfect. Obama bro calls Nazi tattoo guy a “moral, decent man” - which is par for the course considering Jon loves to platform the moral and decent man who is… Hasan Piker.
We’ll look back on the Obama administration as employing some of the worst people on… https://t.co/JRGNnRMe1L
Can I assume that @BulwarkOnline and its cadre of Principled Former Republicans will be endorsing and supporting the moderate old school Susan Collins over the radical left-wing guy with a Nazi tattoo and history of racism and misogyny?
If not, why not?
No, because they're paid Democrat operatives. But I think maybe you were being rhetorical.
US to Deploy Brand New Hypersonic Missile, The "Dark Eagle," to Iran
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The bad news: each of these missiles costs $15 million. And there are currently only eight of them.
The good news: They have a range of 1,725 miles and travel at Mach 5 (at their fastest). They can maneuver in flight and dodge attempts to intercept them. I don't really think Iran is very advanced as far as missile interceptions, but I guess they could try.
Their targets will be the remaining missile launchers Iran uses to terrorize its neighbors, hit US bases, and throttle shipping through the Strait of America. These missile launchers hide in fortified bunkers all day-- and then come out for just an hour to set up and launch a missile, and then hide again. These hypersonic missiles will be used as a very rapid response when a missile launcher is spotted by satellites or spyplanes.
It would take "minutes" for the Dark Eagle to reach its target, minimizing the chances that the launcher will duck back inside its bunker before being hit.
If they can take out eight of Iran's few remaining missile launchers, that will be $120 million well spent. (Though note the program's R&D cost $2.7 billion, but that's mostly sunk cost at this point.)
US Central Command has asked to send the Army's long-delayed Dark Eagle hypersonic missile to the Middle East for possible use against Iran, seeking a longer-range system to hit ballistic-missile launchers deep inside the country.
If approved, it would mark the first time the US will have deployed its hypersonic missile, which is running far behind schedule and hasn't been declared fully operational even as Russia and China have deployed their own versions.
The Request for Forces submission justifies the move by saying Iran has moved its launchers out of range of the Precision Strike Missile, a weapon that can hit targets at more than 300 miles, a person with direct knowledge of the request said.
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Dark Eagle, also known as the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, or LRHW, has a reported range of more than 1,725 miles, although its exact capabilities are secret. It is designed to glide to its target at more than five times the speed of sound and can maneuver to avoid interception.
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The US already transferred most of its supplies of the stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missile, also designed for a fight with a near-peer adversary, to the Iran fight. About 1,100 of the missiles have been fired so far in the conflict.
Trump has rejected Iran's laughable "proposal" for the US to end the blockade while Iran continues its nuclear program. He will keep the blockade in place until Iran agrees to give up its nuke program and nuke materials, and is preparing for "short but powerful" strikes against the regime.
President Trump told Axios he's going to keep Iran under a naval blockade until the regime agrees to a deal that addresses U.S. concerns about its nuclear program.
Why it matters: Trump is rejecting an Iranian proposal to first open the Strait of Hormuz and lift the blockade, while postponing nuclear talks to a later stage.
Behind the scenes: U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has prepared a plan for a "short and powerful" wave of strikes on Iran in hopes of breaking the negotiating deadlock, three sources with knowledge said.
After the strikes, which would likely include infrastructure targets, the U.S. would press the regime to come back to the negotiating table and show more flexibility.
Trump told Axios he saw the blockade as "somewhat more effective than the bombing," and the sources said he had yet to order any kinetic action as of Tuesday night. He did post an AI-generated meme of himself holding a gun with a warning to Iran and the tagline, "NO MORE MR. NICE GUY."
For now, Trump sees continuing the blockade as his primary source of leverage, but he would consider military action if it Iran still won't cave, according to the sources. He declined to discuss any military plans in Wednesday's phone interview, which lasted around 15 minutes.
The Dark Eagle is the U.S. Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon... a mobile, ground-launched missile built to strike high-value, heavily defended targets with extreme speed and minimal warning time.
The Dark Eagle is the U.S. Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon... a mobile, ground-launched missile built to strike high-value, heavily defended targets with extreme speed and minimal warning time.
Judicial Watch Lawsuit Compels Oregon, Against Its Will, to Remove 800,000 Ineligible Voters from Its Voter Rolls -- Nearly One Quarter of All Eligible Voters In the State
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Don't look now, but that thing that never happens is happening again.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Settlement of a Judicial Watch lawsuit has forced the review and removal of some 800,000 ineligible voters from Oregon voter rolls
Judicial Watch announced a settlement in its federal lawsuit against Oregon election officials, which confirms 800,000 ineligible voter names are slated for review and removal from voter registration lists. The settlement requires state officials to produce detailed data and enforce federal voter roll clean-up procedures under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
I should say that of the 800,000 ineligible names, only 160,000 are being scrubbed now; the other 640,000 will be reviewed and scrubbed from the lists later.
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in October 2024, alleging Oregon failed to remove ineligible voters and seeking to enforce Section 8 of the NVRA after identifying widespread voter roll maintenance failures across dozens of counties (Judicial Watch, et al. v. The State of Oregon et al. (No. 6:24-cv-01783)).
In its complaint, Judicial Watch argued that Oregon's voter rolls contain large numbers of old, inactive registrations; and that 29 of Oregon's 36 counties removed few or no registrations as required by federal election law. Judicial Watch asserted that Oregon and 35 of its counties had overall registration rates exceeding 100%; and that Oregon had the highest known inactive registration rate of any state in the nation. In combination, all of these facts showed that Oregon was failing to remove inactive registrations as required by federal law.
In August 2025, a federal court in Oregon denied a motion to dismiss by Oregon and ruled the lawsuit could proceed.
In response to the lawsuit, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read announced earlier this year that Oregon has about 800,000 inactive registrations, which are kept separately from the active voter rolls and do not receive ballots. Of those, roughly 160,000 already meet federal and state criteria for removal--having received confirmation notices, failed to respond, and not voted in two federal elections--and are slated for cancellation. The remaining approximately 640,000 inactive records do not yet qualify for removal and will be processed through future list maintenance efforts.
In its press release, Oregon acknowledged that routine removal of outdated records effectively stalled in 2017, leaving a large pool of long-dormant registrations on the rolls without being fully processed for removal. The scale of the backlog underscores a gap in routine list maintenance that is only now being addressed. "These directives are about cleaning up old data that's no longer in use so Oregonians can be confident that our voter records are up to date," said Read.
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The settlement with Oregon remains in effect for more than five years, with a federal court retaining jurisdiction to enforce its terms. While the settlement resolves the litigation, it explicitly allows future legal action if Oregon fails to comply with voter list clean-up requirements going forward.
The settlement requires Oregon to open its voter roll maintenance processes to unprecedented scrutiny. ...
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Colorado recently removed 372,000 ineligible voter names thanks to a Judicial Watch lawsuit and settlement addressing the state's compliance with federal voter list maintenance requirements.
In Kentucky, state election board officials reported that "roughly 735,000 ineligible voter registrations" have been removed from voter rolls, as part of a 2018 consent decree settling a Judicial Watch lawsuit.
As part of its 2022 settlement, New York City alone has removed 918,139 ineligible names from its rolls: data show 477,056 removals between March 2023 and February 2025, which is in addition to the 441,083 previously reported removals.
In Los Angeles, county officials confirmed the removal of more than 1.2 million names from voter rolls as part of a settlement. Judicial Watch legal pressure also resulted in election roll clean-ups in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Ohio.
Covert Socialist Kathy Hochul to Overt Socialist Zohran Mamdani: You Don't Have a Tax Revenue Problem, You Have a Spending Problem.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Hochul to NYC: Drop Dead, says Hadrian.
I wonder if this makes the Democrat Governess Hochul a racisty racist who hates children and The Science (TM) because she's racist. I figure... no, she isn't a racisty racist. Democrats are allowed to object to back-breaking spending. Only Republicans are racist for doing so, because they Hate the Blacks.
Zohran Mamdani is executing his big new socialist plan.
Have you heard this one before? His plan is to spend other people's money until he runs out of other people's money, and then to start spending other other people's money. It's gotta work this time, right? The law of averages says it must.
So he's run out of money, just three months into his term of four years, and is demanding that Governess Granny Hochul rewrite the law to impose new taxes on his citizen-slaves.
NYC Mayor Mamdani's latest pitch to tax the rich "not happening," Gov. Kathy Hochul says
The budget battle between New York City and New York state lawmakers is intensifying.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin are calling for a new way to tax the rich. They want the state to reduce something called the Pass-Through Equity Tax credit, aka PTET.
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Menin joined the mayor in calling for the new revenue stream, which could mean another $1 billion to help close the city's budget gap.
Gov. Kathy Hochul slammed the door on their proposal.
"That's not happening," Hochul said. "We are not changing PTET."
Hochul said she has already found over $4 billion in state aid for the city, and that Mamdani and Menin have a spending problem.
"And we've encouraged the speaker and the mayor to do what every other city has to do, [which] is look at your expenses. What is growing exponentially? They have programs that are growing not 4% a year, but 4% [in] months. And so they have to do whatever the other city is doing," Hochul said.
Budget watchdogs agree with Hochul, saying that instead of trying to tax their way out of the budget problems, they should stop spending so much.
"Right-size spending. Stop spending on programs that don't help New Yorkers. We've increased spending $16 billion more than inflation over the last 10 years," said Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission.
And Mamdani's proposed budget will increase NYC's budget by fourteen billion dollars over just two years.
The pro-terrorist socialist theater kid who never held a real job admits that even if he gets this tax increase, he's going to demand New York state send more of its taxpayers' money to NYC so he can waste it.
Despite Hochul's reluctance, Mamdani still wants more state aid, even if were to actually get this new tax.
"We cannot proceed with balancing that budget without the additional revenue and cost shifts from Albany," Mamdani said.
The Covert Socialist will also meet with billionaire Ken Griffin about his complaints about the new pied-a-terre tax, designed to punish rich people for daring to own second homes in NYC.
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Hochul had another surprise for Mamdani. She has agreed to meet this week with billionaire Ken Griffin. Mamdani has made Griffin the poster boy for why he wants a pied-a-terre tax on people who own multimillion dollar second homes in New York City.
Griffin was so upset with Mamdani's attacks his hedge fund company threatened to pull out of a $6 billion NYC development project.
The PTET is a shelter provided by high-tax leftwing states to allow their richest taxpayers to shelter some of their money so that they don't have to pay the full state taxes. And they're not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts -- they know their rich, highly-mobile taxpayers will flee to states with lower (or no) income taxes if they don't give them a break on taxes.
Mamdani is demanding that the break be reduced from a 100% credit on state taxes to 75%. Thereby reducing the incentive to rich people to stay in the high-tax state, thereby increasing the number of rich people who will flee.
And of course, this is why high-tax states like California are pushing for "exit taxes" -- money they steal from you when you move out of their states. They want to keep you prisoner. If you stay you have to pay their high tax rates, but if you try to leave, they'll shellac you with a huge "exit tax" on your wealth.
I think this will all work out beautifully for the socialists, as it always has and always will.
Actual Justice Warrior seems to understand the PTET tax shelter, which I currently don't.
Bonus: Seattle's Woke Wallflower Socialist Mayor giggles as she says "Bye" to corporations -- like Starbucks -- fleeing her city.
INSANE. Seattle's Socialist Mayor responds to exodus of wealth from Washington state by saying "BYE" ... then laughing. We're doomed. pic.twitter.com/gP8CbPkqEl
Economy Grows By Decent 2% Annualized Rate Despite Fuel Price Inflation; New Jobless Claims Fall to Near Record Lows
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Via Ed Morrissey. It's a decent growth figure, rebounding from the weak 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2026 (January, February, and March), according to the advance estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2025, real GDP increased 0.5 percent.
The contributors to the increase in real GDP in the first quarter were investment, exports, consumer spending, and government spending. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, also increased. ...
Real final sales to private domestic purchasers, the sum of consumer spending and gross private fixed investment, increased 2.5 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter.
The nominal rate of growth -- unadjusted for inflation -- came in a huge 5.6%. That's a good sign, because the current inflation is temporary due to Iran throttling the Strait of America.
Danny Dayan
@DannyDayan5
The economy is simply on fire.
-Claims lowest of cycle, 2nd lowest since 1969.
-ECI shows wages accelerating.
-Core PCE deflator (pre war) hottest since 2023.
-Nominal GDP very strong
If anyone you follow is still talking rate cuts, fire them.
By "claims," he means "new jobless filings," which came in at 189,000, the lowest since... 1969.
NEC Director Kevin Hassett on the latest economic data:
"We got initial [jobless] claims, the lowest they've been since the 1960s. We've got government employment, the lowest it's been since the Second World War. We’ve got all these positive movements..." pic.twitter.com/Fc1My5FwBI
A Muslim Immigrant Goes on Stabbing Spree in Jewish Neighborhood in the UK
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Did I say "Muslim immigrant"? I'm sorry, the propaganda media prefers the term "British national born in Somalia." In other words a foreign invader permitted to come to the UK and given a passport to commit jihad.
I saw this yesterday but I didn't post it because, as usual, they were hiding the identity of the terrorist. Identity is the most important thing until an identity favored by the left shoots up a church or school or goes on a stabbing spree.
The two men, aged 76 and 34, were treated at the scene and are now in a stable condition in hospital, the Metropolitan Police said.
A 45-year-old man, a British national born in Somalia, was Tasered by police before being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the force said. The suspect is now in custody...
The Met said its officers responded at 11:16 BST on Wednesday after receiving reports that people had been stabbed in Highfield Avenue, which runs off Golders Green Road.
The suspect also attempted to stab the attending officers, the Met said, but none were injured.
Apparently the usual suspects are whining that the British National was kicked when he was on the ground, but that's because, see, he refused to release the knife after attempting to stab the cops.
They lie. They manipulate. They fake numbers. They fake data. They have their cronies in the various administrative departments massage the numbers and delay the release of the actual...real...data for political ends.
And their fellow travelers in the media are 100% in lockstep with them. And not just lockstep...they actively tilt their message with deeply biased "reporting," They commission studies that are intended to bolster a political narrative that is at odds with reality, then amplify the false message so that it appears to be the accepted orthodoxy.
In this case it is the widely assumed but absolutely incorrect assumption that political violence is the domain of the right. But it's easy to claim that when the data themselves are manipulated with fake definitions that protect the privileged: Arab terrorists, Antifa street thugs, BLM murderers are curiously absent from the data, or redefined into oblivion.
And hilariously...the sources for much of the data are themselves evil political organizations that have not a shred of credibility in the real world. Gentlemen, I give you the SPLC and the ADL! Otherwise known as friends of the KKK and Judaism-hating pseudo-Jews.
So don't believe anything they say until you confirm it with your independent examination of the data, and even then, be deeply suspicious!
On the Left, people point to January 6 as well as data purporting to show that most political violence comes from the Right. After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, The Economist ran a piece claiming to explain “what the data show,” which suggested that most political violence was a Right-wing phenomenon. Other publications cited studies from the Center for Strategic & International Studies or the CATO Institute.
The problem is, the “data” that these outlets have been relying on is deeply flawed.
One of the major sources is the Prosecution Project, an initiative of the University of Cincinnati, which analyzes felony criminal cases involving political violence and sorts them by ideology. “The project examines criminal complaints, indictments and court records, looking for crimes that seek ‘a socio-political change or to communicate’ to outside audiences,” per The Economist. “Its data show that extremists on both left and right commit violence, although more incidents appear to come from right-leaning attackers.”
Yet if you pull up the data center yourself, you can see immediately that it is deeply flawed.
Read the entire thing, and check her work! Because that is what sane people do. This is a vitally important analysis, for the obvious reasons, but also because it proves that what we all suspected was in fact the truth...we cannot believe anything the left says...and the left is everywhere.
[Yeah...Ace beat me to this. I figured his shelving accident would give me enough lead time, but I was wrong.]
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday sharply limited the ability of states to consider race when drawing congressional maps, a decision that could reshape the balance of power in Washington and intensify redistricting battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, which included two majority-black districts, as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
In the court’s 36-page opinion, Alito emphasized that “the Constitution almost never permits the Federal Government or a State to discriminate on the basis of race,” framing the central question as whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act justifies such actions.
For the court’s conservative wing, the answer was no.
Alito and the five other justices were absolutely correct, moral and courageous in upholding the ideals of our Constitution and the ideals behind the concept that undergirds our society, "American Exceptionalism": that is that our founding and society are the exception to every other society in history, which was based on tyranny and oppression of the citizenry.
No doubt this is a big victory but I have a niggling (racist?) feeling that SCOTUS threw us a bone with this insofar as they've already made up their minds that they are going to preserve, protect and defend the bastardization of the 14th Amendment that allows foreigners to spawn on our shores to proclaim the babies as American citizens and then magically transmogrify the parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and others born elsewhere as Americans and ship them all in to become Democrat voters and welfare recipients.
For sure the win yesterday is a gut punch for the Democrat/Leftists, but losing birthright citizenship would potentially be catastrophic for them.
Unfortunately, Dobbs, Bruen and this ruling aside, SCOTUS and every court in the land cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Especially given what President Trump and many decent ordinary Americans have had to endure in the wake of J/6, School board and Pro-life protests that saw them persecuted by judges and prosecutors at the behest of Biden/Obama and their minions.
On Wednesday, the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the president had raised his arguments too late.
I'll complete the thought for the hack-in-black..."If only he didn't survive that assassination attempt, we'd hear the case... And then rule against him after they shoved the orangeman casket into the ground."
The three liberal judges — all of whom usually support pro-migration claims — suggested they might block Trump’s actions on the claim that Trump may be partially motivated by racially discriminatory “animus.”
Brnovich,Judge Susan Brnovich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on Tuesday said that the state’s voter registration list is not subject to requests from the U.S. Attorney General.
Brnovich, a Trump appointed-judge, dismissed the case with prejudice because an amended complaint would be “legally futile.”
The dismissal follows after after judges have ruled against the Justice Department’s attempted to obtain at least 30 states and the District of Columbia’s constituents date of birth, address, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers.
The Trump administration seeks the data to ensure states are complying with federal election laws and to check the citizenship status of individuals on the voter rolls.
Gevalt. Alito and Thomas cannot and will not hang on forever, despite Thomas knowing full well where this nation is headed. God bless him for hanging on. Every second he lasts gives us a fighting chance, however brief.
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
While the world was once again forced to hold its collective breath on Saturday evening as an attempted assassin sought to slay U.S. President Donald Trump, the safety of populists throughout the West has become an increasing concern. Brexit Boss Nigel Farage Reveals His Home Was Targeted in Firebombing Attack
Lawmakers adopted the procedural measure in a 216-210 vote, which cleared the way for Congress to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) section 702, which allows for warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals’ communications with Americans ahead of a Thursday deadline. Republican leaders have engaged in lengthy negotiations with members who wanted to amend section 702 to add restrictions to the surveillance of U.S. citizens’ communications. Republicans Poised To Allow Continued Unfettered Government Spying On American Citizens
Speaking in a phone interview with Axios earlier in the day, Trump explained that he rejected a proposal from Tehran that would have involved reopening the Strait of Hormuz and easing the blockade before addressing the nuclear issue, making clear he will not lift the blockade until Iran agrees to U.S. demands. Trump Vows to Maintain Iran Blockade Until Nuclear Terms Met — Tehran Threatens ‘Unprecedented’ Response
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The cost update comes as the war nears the 60-day mark. Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, military operations lasting more than 60 days require congressional approval, with leeway for the President to request a 30-day extension. At present, the House has failed to pass a war powers resolution, while the Senate has consistently blocked measures to end the war. Iran War Has Cost $25 Billion So Far, Pentagon Confirms.
The three liberal judges — all of whom usually support pro-migration claims — suggested they might block Trump’s actions on the claim that Trump may be partially motivated by racially discriminatory “animus.” Lobbies, Liberals Ask SCOTUS to Override Trump’s Haiti Policy
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
The investigation could lead to significant legal consequences for Minnesota’s top officials if they are found complicit. Tim Walz already abandoned a reelection bid earlier this year as coverage of Somali fraud in the state on his watch ramped up. Vance Confirms Walz, AG Ellison Being Investigated in Somali Fraud Probe.
Highlighting individuals like President Donald Trump, Victor Davis Hanson, Hugh Hewitt, and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was my attempt to turn the spotlight away from Carlson and onto the many stalwart friends Jews have in the West, particularly in the United States. 2026’s Non-Carlsons: Prominent Non-Jews Who Stand With Jews and Israel
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
‘The Commission agrees that it may not consider irrelevant factors in performing its function and specifically agrees that it will not take into account the perceived political beliefs, political speech, or labor practices of SpaceX or its officers.’ California’s Political Commissars Surrender To Elon Musk’s Lawyers
Can a politics that seeks to prevent harm coexist with a civilization that wants to build? A Conflict of AI Visions
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Warsh will be Trump’s second appointment to the chairmanship of the Fed. Trump elevated Powell during his first term but the relationship between the president and the Fed chair quickly deteriorated when Powell raised rates several times, slowing economic growth despite very low inflation. Trump frequently and publicly chastised Powell’s monetary policy but never sought to interfere with the Fed’s independent policymaking. Senate Banking Committee Gives Kevin Warsh Thumbs Up To Lead the Fed
Powell's announcement landed with a mix of defiance and self-importance. His chairmanship ends next month, yet he plans to remain on the Federal Reserve Board for what he calls an “undetermined period of time.” Jerome Powell Isn’t Quietly Leaving the Fed
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Blanche said, “We are repealing rules that went beyond what the law allows” and getting rid of “red tape.” He pointed out that said rules were instituted by people who did not understand gun owners or gun store owners. ATF Director Robert Cekada Takes Jackhammer to Biden-Era Gun Regs
The revelation has sparked calls for immediate action to ensure election integrity, with Congressman Mark Harris (R-NC) labeling the situation a “failure” and urging the passage of the SAVE America Act, which mandates proof of citizenship for voter registration. Notably, without proper verification, the chance of possible voter fraud in the November midterm elections will be exponentially higher. State Finds Tens of Thousands of Dead People on Voter Rolls.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
One note read, “There is only one king in this image. Donald [T]rump holds the position of president of the United States while King Charles is king of the United Kingdom.” Democrats Erupt After White House Drops ‘Two Kings’ Photo
Organized labor, long a kingmaker in the state’s Democrat politics, has been dethroned by the far Left and its progressive apologists. Will Unions Stick with Democrats in Michigan?
Rocha Moya is the current governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, which the Department of Justice calls the "geographic epicenter of the global narcotics trade." He's also a member of former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and current president Claudia Sheinbaum's Morena Party. Others charged include the mayor of Culiacan, a sitting senator, and the deputy attorney general for the Sinaloa State Attorney General’s Office. This Is Huge: DOJ Indicts Sinaloa Governor and Others in Sweeping Cartel Case
The study, titled, Jovenes Españoles 2026 ("Spanish Youth") was published by the Spanish non-profit organization Fundacion SM, and it contains an exhaustive analysis of the current reality of Spaniards aged between 15-24 during 2025 across a wide range of subjects, comparing the findings with those from 2020 and 2005. Study: Majority of Young Spaniards See Migration as a ‘Real Threat’
...both hearings suggest that Congress will also afford Isaacman more
leeway on how he uses the money. He will be able to cut or reshape major projects. He will be able to shut down some offices that he considers wasteful or redundant. And above all, he will be given the freedom to reform NASA in ways no Congress has allowed in decades. Propaganda vs reporting in describing the battle over NASA’s budget
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
One of the most brilliant, most controversial, most mercurial, most wild and wildly influential artists, songwriters, and performers in country music history has done something that almost seemed impossible from this old stump of hickory who survived prison stints, motorcycle gang fights, horrific automobile accidents, run-ins with the law, and a major bout with COVID that put him in the hospital at 82—he’s succumb to mortality and passed on to that honky tonk in the sky. Outlaw Country Legend David Allan Coe Has Died.
To get to the point, right at the start, Jay Gould was not a “Robber Baron”, nor was he the worst “Robber Baron,” as many journalists of his time as well as many historians in the next century liked to slander him, implying he was unethical, cruel, and routinely used under-handed tactics to destroy others while making himself wealthy. In fact, he was no more a robber baron then the entire class of hard-nosed businessmen who in the 1800s became America’s first generation of today’s billionaires, using the free enterprise system to gather wealth to themselves while building vast industries that employed millions and made the lives of everyone better and more prosperous. Who really was Jay Gould?
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Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace and Megyn free zone. Please.
Will you be smarter after reading this ONT? Will you be better looking? Will you be more fun at parties? Will you lose weight? Will you be wealthier? Will you be more fashionable?
Maybe you should just settle for being whelmed.
[Top photo: Somewhere unknown in Ireland that reminds me of Stonehenge but doesn't look anything like Stonehenge, Jenny Rose photo]
Flaming underpants? How is it that I have gone my whole life without knowing this story from the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne??
Barry Larkin, now a veterinary surgeon from Melbourne, planned to interupt the torch relay along with eight other students from St John's College, believing that the Olympic Flame received too much reverence.
The fake torch was hardly a master forgery, which makes the fact that it was passed off as the real deal all the more humorous. The fake was made using no more than a wooden chair leg that had been painted silver, holding at top a plum pudding can. As for the flame, which proved to be far from a reverent affair, this was created using a pair of underpants, soaked in kerosene.
After a shaky start, Larkin ran with the torch to Sydney Town Hall protected by police who thought that he was the official runner, where he presented the torch to the Mayor of Sydney, Pat Hills.
As the mayor was unprepared, he did not look at the torch and went straight to his speech. While Hills was talking, Larkin walked quietly away, avoiding attention. Hills didn't realise at all that the torch was fraudulent until someone whispered in his ear and told him it was a fake. Hills looked around for Larkin, but by now Larkin had merged into the crowd and escaped.
What could be a better tribute to the Olympic spirit than unauthorized flaming underwear on a chair leg?
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Remember when Late Nite TV was fun and silly. Yeah... good times.
Authorities in North Carolina are asking local residents to keep an eye out for a "really big pig" seen wandering loose in Durham County.
The Durham County Sheriff's Office said on social media that the "new heavyweight champion" was spotted in the Mason Road area but animal services personnel were unable to locate the "ham-bassador."
"To put it lightly: he is a REALLY big pig. We're talking 'absolute unit' status," the post said. "He's currently living his best life on the lam, but we'd like to get him somewhere safe before he decides to move into someone's backyard permanent-like."
The sheriff's office said residents should report any sightings of the pig and not attempt to capture it themselves. The pig's owner has not yet been identified.
A bill introduced in the Ohio House would designate the Loveland Frogman as the state's official cryptid.
A bill sponsored by Reps. Tristan Rader, D-13th district, and Jean Schmidt, R-62nd district, calls for the local legend to be named Ohio's official state cryptid.
House Bill 821 describes the Loveland Frogman as "a frog-like, bipedal creature standing approximately four feet tall."
The legend dates back to 1972, when two police officers reported spotting a large frog-like creature on different nights.
The Frogman made headlines again in 2016, when a couple claimed to have seen the massive amphibian while playing Pokemon Go.
The sighting prompted Mark Mathews, who purports to be one of the police officers who spotted the Frogman in 1972, to come forward with the whole story.
Mathews said the first officer to spot the Frogman, Ray Shockey, told him he saw the creature near the Totes boot factory and the Little Miami River.
Mathews said he was skeptical of the story, but a few days later he was driving in the same area when he saw something run across the road.
He ended up shooting the creature and putting it in his trunk to show Shockey, who confirmed it was the same animal he had seen.
The animal was a 3- to 3 1/2-foot-long iguana that was missing its tail.
I don't know whether to be impressed that the Ohio legislature has solved the rest of the world's problems so that they have time for such things, horrified that the Ohio legislature is passing legislation to to formally embrace a hoax, or pleased that people so stupid are busy doing things like this instead of doing harm by "fixing" things elsewhere.
At least in North Carolina, they're spending their time looking for something that actually exists. Although I'm not sure how big a missing pig needs to be to warrant making the news. To be fair, the report does say the pig has "absolute unit" status.
The world's largest Tyrannosaurus Rex statue needs a new home.
Tyra, located in the Canadian Badlands, is a gigantic kitschy roadside attraction that, like the dinosaurs she is based on, is facing extinction. The 86-foot-tall T. rex that weighs in at around 145,000 pounds - significantly taller and heavier than any real-life T. rex - has called the small Canadian town of Drumheller her home since 2000. Visitors have been able to climb inside the giant dinosaur and stand in its open jaws that double as a viewing platform.
Unfortunately, according to the Calgary Herald, Tyra is facing a problem no dinosaur has ever faced in their collective many millions of years on Earth: her lease is set to expire. In 2029, the current terms suggest that the structure could be dismantled. Local officials understand that it is a bit of a logistical nightmare to just up and move a giant dinosaur monolith, but so far, no one has come up with a viable solution for moving such a behemoth.
In the meantime, Tyra underwent a structural assessment to ensure that she is stable and safe, and local officials invested over $300,000 into repairing and restoring the local landmark, ensuring that if Tyra does in fact change locations, she will be in relatively good shape.
Maybe AOP needs a new lawn ornament? Tyra lives just down the road. If anyone can engineer a giant T-Rex transfer, it is AOP.
Hat tip: Blaster
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The Wednesday ONT is not the food thread, but this seemed like a trivia nugget worthy of an ONT.
You would be surprised to learn that almost 69% of the US mushroom production occurs in the borough of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. It is a small town of about 6000 people, but mushroom-growing facilities around town produce almost 451 million pounds of mushrooms annually (2024). 451 million pounds of mushrooms would occupy about 45 American football fields or 35 soccer fields. The dollar value of mushroom production in the US is roughly $ 1 billion per year.
China is the undisputed leader in mushroom production. China accounts for 93% of the world's global mushroom production.
The history of mushroom farming in Kennett Square dates back to 1885, when a grower obtained mushroom spores from Europe and began growing mushrooms. This concentration of mushroom farming in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, is due to historical immigration patterns, primarily of Italians in the 1950s or 1960s, easy availability of horse manure for the mushroom substrate, and easy access to the Philadelphia and New York markets.
A former Chick-fil-A employee was arrested for stealing $80,000 with a mac & cheese scheme at a Texas restaurant, police say.
Keyshun Jones was fired from the store in Grapevine, outside Dallas, last November, but authorities say he would repeatedly slip back in, enter food orders on the register, and refund them to his personal credit card.
Jones was taken into custody on April 17 after allegedly ringing up 800 orders of mac and cheese.
Investigators began investigating the cheesy fraud after the restaurant reported hundreds of phony refunds.
Jones faces charges of property theft, money laundering and evading arrest.
He faces up to 10 years in state prison, if convicted - where he'll also be able to order mac & cheese, according to the menus on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Just imagine the jailhouse conversation: "What are you in for?"
"Money laundering"
"Yeah? Wow. That's sounds big. What did you do?"
"I stole 800 orders of mac and cheese."
Silence.
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Public Service Announcement: by popular demand, the Hobby Thread on Saturday will be car repair.
Think of it like our very own Car Talk (with Click and Clack), Under the Hood or Motor Medics. We can expand to anything with a motor - truck, RV, motorcycle, quad, etc. Bring your ills and mechanical gremlins. Ideally, the experts among the Horde can join to offer their wisdom and advice. If they don't, the rest of us can make wild and uninformed guesses.
Either way, the advice will be free. (That also means it may be worth exactly what you paid for it.) Ace of Spades disclaims any responsibility or liability for advice given or not given. Caveat emptor.
Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? While not technically royalty, the Wednesday ONT enjoys a special relationship with the United Kingdom. The Wednesday ONT also wishes to express its condolences to those impacted by World War Eleven. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
A different cut showing how Airplane! was just the movie Zero Hour!but with jokes. I can see how they wrote Airplane -- I see them sitting around watching this old, lame movie, making wise-cracks like "And please don't call me Shirley" while watching it, and then deciding to write it as a script. And they had to pay for the Zero Hour! script because all of their best wise-cracks were in response to that particular movie.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton Charge the Democrats with fomenting violence against the nation with their rhetoric, Virginia redistricting going down the tubes? Trump's bully pulpit is not censorship, Lee Zeldin is a star, J.B. Pritzker is an idiot, and more!
ANOTHER LEFT WING ASSASSIN ATTEMPTS TO KILL TRUMP If I understand this, the left-wing Democrat assassin attempted to get into the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and was stopped at the magnetometers, which detected his gun. I guess he pulled out the gun and was shot by Secret Service agents. Erika Kirk was present.
Forgotten 70s Mystery Click You made me cry when you said good-bye 70s, not 50s Now that is a motherflipping intro
Podcast: Sefton and CBD wonder about the Chaos that Trump is creating in the minds of the Iranian junta, Virginia redistricting is pure power grab, Ilhan Omar is many things ...and stupid too! Amazon censoring conservative thought again, and the UK...put a fork in it!
The people in charge [Jews, of course -- ace] don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.
Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity.
Trump's trolling tweet was ill-advised, but Tucker is just lying when he claims the Christianity-hating President of Iran was "offended" by this. He's one step away from announcing his official conversion to Islam. He literally never stops praising Islam. Well, he suddenly became Christian two years ago, there's not much stopping him from converting again.
You can track Tuq'r's official conversion to Islam with this Bingo card.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton talk Orban losing, but is it the end of Hungary? The Irish start a brawl, but is it enough, Pope Leo wades into politics, Trump calls Iran's bluff and blockades Hormuz, Artemis II! Swallwell is scum, and more!
People say that the bearded man in the video of Fartwell molesting a hooker looks like Democrat Arizona Senator Rueben Gallego, said to be Swalwell's "best friend" and known to take vacations with him.
Politico is reporting that multiple people have abruptly resigned from Eric Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign: "Members of senior leadership have departed the campaign, including Courtni Pugh, a strategic adviser who served as Swalwell's top liaison to organized labor groups."
So the campaign is collapsing due to the truth of the sexual harassment allegations.
That hissing sound you hear is the air going out of the Swalwell campaign. UPDATE: No it wasn't, it was just Swalwell one-cheek-sneaking out a fart on camera
Eric Swalwell more like Eric Farewell amirite
thanks to weft-cut loop.
This is the dumbest AI bullslop I've seen in a while: the CIA can use "quantum magnetometry" to track an individual man's heartbeat from twelve miles away I wouldn't click on it, it's not interesting, it's just stupid clickslop. I just want to share my annoyance with you.
